CNN reports that NASA’s attempt to land the NEAR-Shoemaker research satellite on Eros, a near earth asteroid, was successful.

CNET News.com reports on Anna, a naughty Visual Basic script posing as a photo of Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova. Once the photo is opened via Microsoft’s Outlook email products, the script then mails itself to everyone in the initial recipient’s address book.

Anonymous Reader writes “The ruling has come down and for Napster it’s bad. In a 58-page opinion the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the online service is guilty of infringement and must stop trading in copyrighted material.” Story at MP3 Newswire

SatireWire: “In a 2-to-1 decision, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered song-swapping service Napster to stop trading copyrighted material as soon as the judges finish downloading their favorite Pink Floyd songs, which the judges have been unable to access due to heavy demand on Napster’s servers.”

ChannelWeb covers developments in Computer Associate’s Linux support, taking a look at the company’s cluster management and Unicenter performance testing software.

LinuxPlanet runs commentary from Dennis E. Powell regarding the different perceptions of what “free” means to denizens of the Open Source community and other technology areas, stating “Alas, the Free Software Foundation’s definition of “free” is as corrupt as is Microsoft’s.”

Linux.com reports on the use of Linux in larger mainframe computers, machines some considered to be near death just a few years ago. “The new Linux kernel 2.4 increasingly supports higher-end machines, such
as the IBM S/390 Mainframe, and clusters. 2.4 also better supports many of
the peripherals associated with this class of machine, like gigabit Ethernet,
fast-switching, multi-device support for RAID and LVM, improved SCSI
drivers, and more.”

Maxtor takes an unusual step — some might say a backwards step — in the “bigger is always better” world of hard drive manufacturing by debuting is latest hot product: a 15GB disc. The key here isn’t capacity but increased reliability, as those fifteen gigs were designed to be unusually sturdy, utilizing a single platter, one read/write head, and a latching mechanism to hold everything in place. The new drive is available now for $90 MSRP. Full story at PC World.

Expect new wireless products and strategies from Palm and Microsoft at this week’s Demo 2001 trade show, taking place this year in Phoenix. Microsoft is expected to raise the curtain on a wireless email system, while Palm will talk about its Bluetooth strategy for Palm devices. Full story at InfoWorld.

As posted to the kde-core-devel list, the new release date for KDE 2.1 will be February 26 (that’s a Monday). Click through for other important deadlines shared by developers and testers. pages to alpha